Edited by Grainne Ryder and Margaret Barber

A critique of the Three Gorges Water Control Project Feasibility Study

Nine independent experts express their professional outrage at a Canadian government-financed study that recommends building the Three Gorges dam in China, which would require the forcible relocation of one million people and the destruction of one of the world’s most magnificent canyons. The findings prompted Probe International to file a formal complaint with the professional engineering associations against Canadian engineering firms for professional misconduct, negligence, and incompetence.

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Read the book by chapter:

• Acknowledgements
• About the contributors
• Foreword 1st Edition
• Foreword 2nd Edition
• Editors Note 2nd Edition
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 – Damming the Three Gorges: 1920 – 1993
• Chapter 2 – What Dam Builders Don’t Want You to Know: A Summary
• Chapter 3 – Resettlement Plans for China’s Three Gorges Dam
• Chapter 4 – Three Gorges Reservoir: Environmental Impacts
• Chapter 5 – Potential Methyl Mercury Contamination in the Three Gorges Reservoir
• Chapter 6 – Downstream Environmental Impacts
• Chapter 7 – Unresolved Issues: Perspectives from China
• Chapter 8 – Flood Control Analysis
• Chapter 9 – Missing Energy Perspectives
• Chapter 10 – Dam Safety Analysis
• Chapter 11 – Sedimentation Analysis
• Chapter 12 – Economic and Financial Aspects
• Appendix A
• Appendix B
• Endnotes